Watch here: Listen here: Welcome back to the podcast. Today we share 8 tips in response to a question that we were tagged on @ Twitter: As always we also discuss wins and books. Links: Mentioned books: And last but not least thanks for all your feedback 😍🙏 You can reach out to us through our Slack or… Continue reading 8 tips for succeeding in the software industry
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Blaise Pabon on his developer journey, open source and why Python is great
By PyBites Team on 13 March 2023
Listen here: Or watch here: Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we have a very special guest: Blaise Pabon. We talk about his background in software development, how he started with Python and his journey with us in PDM. We also pick his brains about why Python is such a great language, the importance of… Continue reading Blaise Pabon on his developer journey, open source and why Python is great
From Excel to Python and succeeding as a Developer by building your portfolio
By PyBites Team on 9 February 2023
Listen here: Or watch here: Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we have an inspirational chat with Juanjo: – How he started his programming journey and what passionates him about this craft. – How he fell in love with Python. – How he overcame tutorial paralysis. – How PDM helped him improve his skills and… Continue reading From Excel to Python and succeeding as a Developer by building your portfolio
How Michael Knott used Python to enhance his sports coaching career
By PyBites Team on 2 February 2023
Listen here: Or watch here: Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we have a wonderful chat with Michael Knott. We talk about the most valuable things about Michael’s Python journey, including what he achieved through our PDM program. We talk about:– Michael’s work as a fitness coach and how he got into Python as… Continue reading How Michael Knott used Python to enhance his sports coaching career
10 things that hamper your Python career progress
By PyBites Team on 25 January 2023
We all know that becoming a Python developer is hard. There’s the “10,000-hour” principle which means there’s a significant amount of effort and time you’re going to have to invest. More important though is how you’ll spend that time. Are you working on the right things and tackling increasingly challenging goals? We talk with a… Continue reading 10 things that hamper your Python career progress
Testing membership and empty strings
By J. Ryan Hall on 20 January 2023
I was working on one of the exercises on the Pybites platform (Bite 29) and encountered a situation I didn’t understand. I needed to check a set of inputs to see if they were alphanumeric or not as part of the solution to the exercise. I succeeded in all but one test, but I couldn’t… Continue reading Testing membership and empty strings
Reflections on the Zen of Python
By Bob Belderbos on 21 December 2022
An initial version of this article appeared as a Pybites email first. If you like it join our friends list to get our valuable Python, developer and mindset content first … How following the Zen of Python will make your code better, a lot better. This epic set of axioms (triggered by typing import this in the… Continue reading Reflections on the Zen of Python
Software Engineering and Entrepreneurship
By PyBites Team on 15 November 2022
Listen here: This week we talk with Yujian, software developer and entrepreneur. We dive into: – His background. – Why he uses Python and the switch from Java. – His core Python focus these days + cool side projects he’s maintaining. – How entrepreneurship is fundamentally different from software engineering. – His viral post on certificates vs the reality of looking things up… Continue reading Software Engineering and Entrepreneurship
Learn by building, how we built our own collaboration tool in Django
By PyBites Team on 19 May 2022
Listen now: In this episode we tell the story about Pybites CMS, our new powertool we use to better streamline our business. We tell why we built it, how it was an opportunity for Julian to brush up his coding skills, how we applied the PDM philosophy of learning by building, scratching your own itch.… Continue reading Learn by building, how we built our own collaboration tool in Django
Code Better with Type Hints – Part 3
By Michael Aydinbas on 8 April 2022
This is the third part of a series of articles dealing with the type annotation system in Python, type hints for short. The second part discussed a set of beginner examples and highlighted the benefits of using type hints. This article series is aimed at newcomers to type hints and wants to help you get… Continue reading Code Better with Type Hints – Part 3